The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-15
FAOr AND FANCY.


OF Indians returning from the hop-aelds, and
the merchants are reaping rich harvest
Oregon hunters report ducks, geese, and
swans coming In In large numbers which 10
considered sign Of approaching stormy
weather.
Says The Plot Point CTeI.) Mirror: "Thc
editor put on his hard-boIcd shirt and scissor
tail coat and split the wind for Dallas last
Tuesday,
Mrs. NJ. e, Parker OF Horne, La, proposes
to solve the Chinese question by replacing the
Chinese servants with 'needy gentlewomen"
from England.
A retiring editor of a Nevada paper wrote:
"Thenklng an overlndulgent public for not
having mobbed me long since, am sincerely
theirs to serve" etc.
brass key, used as slnkcr by Var
mouth, N. s., citizen, was carried away by
fish, and several day slater was found In
lobster pot one mile away.
Bears are killing great number Of sheep in
Franklin county, Maine, Notwithstanding the
repeated efforts on the part of the farmers to
rid the country OF ursine marauders.
lose their elasticity by the continual blowing
1t is said cases have been reported where
workers have blown holes through their
cheeks
An American philanthroplst Of wealth is
said to have subscribed 100000 recently for
the founding Of a university In China. The
matter OF its location Is now being considered
in that country.
In China the rule OF the road is to keep to
the left, but the cody bearers can't be taught
to mind It, and there are frequent collisions,
which the women or others In the jlnrichshas
or sedan chairs are badly hurt
There is movement In the commercial and
business circles Of San Francisco to form
''public-defense committee to aid in sup
pressing crimes which are now corruptIng
public officers and defeating justice.
The lovers promenade around GAINESVILLE
Tenn, has been deserted lately; owing to the
presence OF pet deer which had been In the
habit Of making Vicious attacks upon the
young people who frequcnted the resort
In London short time ago two ragpickers
were sent to jail for spending for necessary
articles a sovereign which they found in
castaway coat. The justice said the poor
devils should have reported the find to the
police.
A New York World reporter figures out that
Jay Gould's trip across in the Umbria will
cost him about $4,000. The captains cabin is
$500, the six choice staterooms 5000, and then
the party are to have private dining room and
other extras.
There is a secret agent OF the Mormon church
in Portland Me-, who for years has worked for
his cause without detection. 1t is said that
he has made a number of converts in Maine
and Massachusetts, and has shown his faith by
his works, having taken seven wives.
Corea recently broke down her ancient bar.
rlers so far as to send an envoy to Japan but
the government was so poor that 1t could not
support him, and, soon coming to the end OF
his resources, he had to ask aid OF the Japa-
nese government to avoid being put in desper.
ate straits.
The military marches accomplished by the
ancients were fully equal to those Of the
modern soldiers In the second Punic war
Ulaudus Nero performed the most wonderful
feat Of the kind on record by marching pick
ed body Of 1000 horse and 5000 foot 225 miles
In six days.
Once everybody used to send silver plate for
wedding presents, but now cut glass and brio
a.brac are the rage. Philadelphia bride re-
ceived so many OF the latter that she can
hardly find house-room for them. out OF two
hundred presents she received not one was In
the silver line.
The final extinction of the seal otter at the
Aleutan islands, on the Pacific coast, seems
certain. The Russians made such havoc
among them that at the time Alaska was sold
to the United States only four or five hundred
a year we're taken, and they are growing scar
Ger and scarcer.
A committee Of citizens from Jacksonville,
Fla, has recommended that the resignation OF
a telegraph operator in that city be accepted,
and that any pay due for services be withheld,
because he told the female operator at Talla-
hasse that there were $50 cases of yellow
fever In Jacksonville.
A small boy of Smithvllle, Ga, who had
often expressed a desire to catch buzzard
was missed, and after he had been away all
day, was found in field, lying on the ground
and 'playng dead" lie said that he was
trying to make the buzzards think that he was
really dead, so that they would come near
enough for him to catch Them
When asked recently what he thought OF
the Kelly motor Edison replieds 81 have
never seen 1t so have no opinion about 1t. But
all the results he is said to have obtained can
be got from compressed air. AL the air In
this room can be condensed into liquid that
could be carried In filbert shell, and its eS'
plosive force would be tremendous.
Five men of Waterbury, Conn, went gun
ALA, nj, ca,urday THAR dnga nointed n auail